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I know we attribute a lot of wrong to social media but I’m pretty sure there was once a time when someone apologising was grounds to sheathe your weapons, not stick the boot in.

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

DPIR is launching a new MSc in Politics of Global Challenges 🌍 HOD Prof David Rueda says it will help students “think critically about global politics” and make a “meaningful impact beyond university”. Applications open in Sept: https://f.mtr.cool/pznqvezufl

For more on the power of norms to shape political behaviour, check out this book by @valentimvicente.bsky.social which really should be required reading for every British politician and advisor, and everyone in the British political media: academic.oup.com/book/57946

This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms

DPIR's @benansell.bsky.social comments in the @financialtimes.com on public opinion towards the Labour Party and a potential return to the "two-party system" following recent fragmentation. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/2kbej4tj

This guy has anti-Semitic brain worms (among many other species of brain worm) and he needs to be treated as radioactive by every Democrat.

It’s long been clear that Reform is beatable – Farage’s terrible personal ratings, toxic brand, mass tactical voting against them. The narrative that victory for them is inevitable was based on superficial analysis + wishful thinking on the right.

Price change in Tesco school uniforms after 46 years: Trousers: ⬇️ £1 Shirts: ⬇️ 49p Jumpers: ⬆️ 25p And that's *nominal*. Loss leaders and all that, but that's still incredible.

Actual research! If you ever wanted to know how the Big Mac index could be reconstructed on a per calorie basis here it is

(I get that Bluesky is very obviously the Wow We Loved Lockdowns website but I think it's absolutely fine, five years after the fact, to wonder if we got the balance right between "protecting older people" and "making sure younger people weren't getting entirely shafted", arguments are allowed)

Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 27% (+5) RFM: 23% (=) CON: 17% (-3) GRN: 12% (-2) LDM: 12% (+1) SNP: 3% (=) Via OpiniumResearch, 29-31 Jul. Changes w/ 15-17 Jul.

There's lots of stuff LLMs can't do, but if you want to disbelieve all the recent math, you have to believe a bunch of Fields Medalists with long track records are just straightforwardly lying about the thing they care most about. Here's a recent blog by Gowers: gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 ProWe are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…gowers.wordpress.com

People need to get it through their heads that whatever they *might* have “actually” meant a couple of years ago, when leftists say “AIPAC” or “Israel” NOW they often mean (((Jewish))) just as when MAGA says “DEI” they mean “Black.” If you can’t get that I don’t know what the else to say.

New Heritage staffers are “More MAGA than Trump.”

Columbia associate prof in CS on the difference between AI solving a proof and reporting in a manner that is intelligible to an expert whose work it builds on

Especially as the sector has reached out to the Govt and sought partnership but nothing. Kramer’s view is widely shared throughout sector 👆

I no longer use X/Twitter, so here I am to support @stianwestlake.bsky.social who has written well on @ukri.org 's strategy I believe his argument is correct: a science funder must fund both curiosity driven and applied research, and that will demand difficult choices 🧵 x.com/stianwestlak...

This is a very good, balanced - and extraordinary - piece; worth reading in full.

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professorJason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racismwww.theguardian.com

MAGA masculinity means declining to publicly criticize the man your daughter has accused of physical abuse, because doing so might prompt a senile 80-year-old man to write mean things about you.